Thursday, January 7, 2010

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This course examines the human quest to find order in the sometimes chaotic array of sensations that surround us: How does the world work? Why do people behave the way they do? We will study the interplay of order and chaos within three interrelated quests:

the quest to understand how the world works by exploring ideas about nature;

the quest to understand individual human behavior by exploring ideas about justice, spirituality, gender, free will, and motivation;

the quest to understand human social behavior by exploring ideas about social and political organizations.